Editing Lyric poetry (section)

===17th century===
Lyrical poetry was the dominant form of 17th&nbsp;century English poetry from [[John Donne]] to [[Andrew Marvell]].<ref name=Corns-1993>
{{cite book
 |last=Corns |first=Thomas
 |year=1993
 |title=The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
 |page=xi
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |place=[[Cambridge, England]]
 |isbn=0-521-42309-0
}}
</ref>
The poems of this period were short. Rarely narrative, they tended towards intense expression.<ref name=Corns-1993/> Other notable poets of the era include [[Ben Jonson]], [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], [[George Herbert]], [[Aphra Behn]], [[Thomas Carew]], [[John Suckling (poet)|John Suckling]], [[Richard Lovelace (poet)|Richard Lovelace]], [[John Milton]], [[Richard Crashaw]], and [[Henry Vaughan]]. A German lyric poet of the period is [[Martin Opitz]]; in Japan, this was the era of the noted [[haiku]]-writer [[Matsuo Bashō]].